market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age … and we show that higher minimum wage can raise aggregate employment. Expansion in the non-traded sector following a wage …

immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … immigration enforcement mutes job creation and raises the unemployment rate of all workers, having an even larger detrimental …

This paper empirically examines the impact of labour market counter-reforms on real GDP per capita and employment … employment protection legislation (EPL), which we further split into counter-reforms for regular and temporary workers, and … unemployment benefits (UB) counter-reforms. The effects of counter-reforms depend on the prevailing economic conditions and are not …

unconventional employment consequences of such shocks at a general equilibrium of a multi-sector competitive economy. A labour market … unemployment of unskilled labour due to one of the import-competing sectors shutting down as it fails to cope up with the import … competition. Subsequent reforms however raises aggregate employment. Thus, we may have a J-curve like employment response to …

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and-through input-output linkages and other general …

others cycle repeatedly in and out of employment. This paper explores the economic consequences of such heterogeneity. Using …

By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of … unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced … effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the observed post-reform unemployment decline. The role of unemployment benefit …